Cesium Release Roundup

[lisabos]

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[sarah]

CesiumJS 1.83 has been released! This release has significant improvements, including support for KTX 2.0 and Basis Universal compressed textures. We’ve also added dynamic terrain exaggeration, support for procedural terrain, the ability to hide outlines on Cesium OSM Buildings, and control over whether shadows fade out when the light source is close to the horizon.

We’ve also updated Cesium for Unreal with numerous improvements.

See our blog post for more information: Cesium Releases in July 2021 – Cesium

In case you missed it, this month we also published these other blog posts:

• Smart Construction Dashboard Now Available
• Watch the Tenth Red Bull X-Alps Live with Cesium
• Skydio’s Newest Autonomous Drone Software Brings Cesium to the Field

And we shared new Cesium for Unreal tutorials:

• Lighting and Rendering Scenes
• Placing Foliage on Cesium Tilesets
• Using a Geospatially Accurate Sun

[sarah]

CesiumJS 1.84 is now available. The release includes numerous community-requested bug fixes and improvements, including support for getting the Cartesian coordinates of a polyline in a vector tile.

Cesium for Unreal has also been updated with a number of of improvements, including added support for reading per-feature metadata from glTF models with the EXT_feature_metadata extension or from 3D Tiles with a B3DM batch table accessed from Blueprints.

See our blog post for more information: Cesium Releases in August 2021

In case you missed it, this month we also published these other blog posts:

• Building the Open Metaverse event at SIGGRAPH 2021 about a SIGGRAPH (virtual) BOF Patrick Cozzi is co-organizing Tuesday, August 10, 1:00-2:30pm EST
• Smart Construction Digital Meetup Thursday, August 5, 1:00 pm EST
• Cesium Makes Commercial Real Estate Analysis More Accessible for JLL Brokers

We also published this new Cesium for Unreal tutorial, authored by community member Aiden Soedjarwo: Procedurally Spawning Foliage

[sarah]

In case you missed it, CesiumJS 1.85 was made available last week.

Cesium for Unreal was also updated with more control over Cesium 3D Tilesets, including multiple raster overlays per tileset, ability to clip part of a tileset, and materials built around Material Layers.

See the blog post for more information.

We also published these other blog posts last month:

• Sign in to Cesium ion with Your Google, GitHub, or Epic Games Account new authentication options for signing in to Cesium ion
• Cesium at SIGGRAPH 2021 summary of Cesium’s presence at SIGGRAPH this year
• Follow Up: Building the Open Metaverse highlights from the SIGGRAPH BOF
• User Story IMS Monitoring Networks at Remote Mines with Cesium
• User Story Reality Maps Builds Digital Twins of Golf Resorts in Cesium

[Eli]

CesiumJS 1.86 is now available.

Cesium ion has been updated with performance improvements & updates to Cesium OSM Buildings.

Cesium Unreal has been updated with numerous bug fixes & the added ability to adjust the amount of data cached in memory.

See the blog post for more information.

We also published these other blog posts last month:

• User story Surfacing Long Lost Shipwrecks with Cesium for Unreal
• Agisoft Metashape Now Directly Supports Sharing 3D Models with Cesium ion integration for bringing photogrammetry data directly into Cesium
• Cesium Welcomes Dr. Norm Badler, Computer Graphics Pioneer, to Head Metaverse Research Q&A with the Ivy League professor working with the Cesium team
• Cesium at GEOINT 2021 preview of the demos we’ll share at GEOINT next week

[sarah]

New Cesium releases available, with added experimental implementation 3D Tiles Next!

CesiumJS 1.88 is now available, with added support for these 3D Tiles Next extensions:

• 3DTILES_content_gltf for using glTF models directly as tile contents
• 3DTILES_metadata for adding structured metadata to tilesets, tiles, or groups of tile content
• EXT_mesh_features for adding feature identification and feature metadata to glTF models
• 3DTILES_implicit_tiling for a compact representation of quadtrees and octrees
• 3DTILES_bounding_volume_S2 for S2 bounding volumes
• 3DTILES_multiple_contents for storing multiple contents within a single tile

Cesium for Unreal now supports:

• 3DTILES_implicit_tiling for a compact representation of quadtrees and octrees
• 3DTILES_bounding_volume_S2 for S2 bounding volumes
• as well as raster overlays, including clipping polygons, on any 3D Tiles tileset.

Download the latest version and get all the details on our blog:

Cesium Releases in December 2021

We also published these other blog posts last month:

• Introducing 3D Tiles Next, Streaming Geospatial to the Metaverse Major announcement and roadmap for 3D Tiles Next from Patrick Cozzi
• Building the Open Metaverse: What is the Metaverse? podcast episode review
• Building the Open Metaverse: Open Standards Governance podcast episode review
• Building the Open Metaverse: Cloud Infrastructure podcast episode review
• Building the Open Metaverse: Geospatial for the Metaverse podcast episode review
• Building the Open Metaverse: 3D on the Web podcast episode review
• Cesium to Share “A Vision of the Metaverse” at GTC GTC event
• Cesium at I/ITSEC 2021 I/ITSEC event

[sarah]

New Cesium releases are available.

• CesiumJS 1.89 is available with numerous updates including custom vertex shaders for more control over shading point clouds.
• Cesium for Unreal and Cesium Native have been updated, including samples demoing custom materials on 3D Tilesets and raster overlays.

Find more details on the blog:

Cesium Releases in January 2022

We also published these blog posts this month:

• 2021 Highlights
• Improved Security with the Cesium ion Tokens API
• Nine Years of Cesium and NORAD Tracks Santa®
• Cesium for High Performance Simulations in Defense
• Building the Open Metaverse: Collaboration with NVIDIA Omniverse
• Incredible Graphics Development in CesiumJS with GeoFS

[sarah]

New Cesium releases are available.

There were lots of updates this month across Cesium, including

• CesiumJS 1.90: improved 3D Tiles support in ModelExperimental with better feature picking & use in custom shaders
• Cesium for Unreal 1.10.0: improved Cesium ion token management

Cesium Releases in February 2022

We also had a new user story up on our blog this month: Off-Road at Yosemite with Cesium for Unreal

[sanjeetsuhag]

New Cesium releases available:

• CesiumJS 1.92 out with many additions, notably support for 3D Tiles 1.1
• Cesium for Unreal 1.12.0 is now available for Unreal Engine 5 Preview 2, in addition to 4.26 and 4.27

See all the release highlights & download

In case you missed it, we also published these blog posts this month:

• Cesium Story Depicts Damage in Ukraine
• Sofia University Synthesizing Air Quality Data with Cesium
• Compare Hundreds of Scenarios in Cesium with GURU Universal Interface for Simulation
• Join the Cesium Team

[sarah]

New Cesium releases are available:

• CesiumJS 1.93 is out with lots of updates, including improved atmosphere rendering from GeoFS creator Xavier Tassin
• Cesium for Unreal 1.13.0 is available for UE5 & UE4, including new access to feature data in tilesets from an Unreal Engine Material Details & downloads:

Release details and download on our blog
More info on the newest Cesium for Unreal release is also on this forum

In case you missed it, we also published these blog posts this month:

• Celebrating 1 Year of Cesium for Unreal
• VR Hangliding in Cesium for Unreal
• AFRL’s GRILL Bringing DIS into Cesium for Unreal for Simulations

Last month we also attended GEOINT. Check our blog post for links to demos & talks.

[sarah]

New Cesium releases are available;

• CesiumJS 1.94 is now available with rendering issues on iOS fixed, more support for ModelExperimental, and model animation control.
• Cesium for Unreal 1.14.0 is out with fixes & also runs on macOS & iOS on UE5.

More details on our blog

In case you missed it, we also published a CesiumJS user story this month:

• LUUCY Providing Better Urban Planning and Site Development with CesiumJS

And a number of technical posts we hope you’ll find useful:

• Fine Grained Metadata in 3D Tiles Next
• Improved Atmosphere in CesiumJS
• Testing Improvements in CesiumJS

[sarah]

New releases available!

• CesiumJS 1.95 is out with many improvements, including numerous updates to get ModelExperimental up to feature parity with Model
• Cesium for Unreal 1.15.0 has a number of additions for Unreal Engine 4 and Unreal Engine 5, including removed the dependency on the Web Browser plugin & widget
• Cesium ion now offers a teams feature that allows organizations to share assets and access tokens

More details on our blog.

Also this month we published tutorials new tutorials on Cesium for Unreal:

• Teleportation, Line Traces, and Height Correction
• Free Movement
• Vignettes
• Visualize Per-Feature Metadata
• Per-Feature Metadata Technical Reference

The first 3 of these tutorials are in our new VR Series for Geospatial Apps, which will continue to grow.

Other news this month:

• We became Founding Principal members of the Metaverse Standards Forum, which grew out of a conversation on Building the Open Metaverse
• AFRL GRILL released their OpenDIS plugin for Cesium for Unreal as open source
• We shared a user story on V2i, which is using Cesium for Unreal to visualize planned property development
• We shared a user story on TMI, a game being developed in Cesium for Unreal exploring the history of Three Mile Island

[Monica]

New Cesium releases are available:

• In CesiumJS 1.96, built Cesium.js is no longer in AMD format.
• Cesium for Unreal 1.16.0 added experimental support for using occlusion culling to drive 3D Tiles selection.

More highlights and downloads on our blog.

In case you missed them, we also published these blog posts in July:

• Institute for Photogrammetry Enhances Research with Cesium
• CesiumJS: 10 Years of Open Source
• OpenSensorHub Connects Military Internet of Things with CesiumJS
• Build Tooling Updates Coming to CesiumJS
• IMMERSIV Creates Virtual Showrooms with Cesium for Unreal
• Cesium at the 2022 SIGGRAPH Carto BOF
• OnePlan and Cesium Delivering Geospatial for Events

[sarah]

New Cesium releases available!

CesiumJS 1.97 is out with numerous improvements, including a new architecture for loading glTF models & tilesets, which enables user-defined GLSL shaders, 3D Tiles Next metadata extensions, and texture caching across different tiles.

Cesium for Unreal 1.17.0 has been updated with some major under-the-hood changes to support future development, plus user-facing improvements, including the added option to smoothly dither between levels-of-detail.

More highlights and the downloads on our blog.

In case you missed it, we had an in depth tech post this month:

• Optimizing 3D Tiles Streaming in Cesium for Unreal with Occlusion Culling

We published these user stories:

• Sedaro Satellite Visualizes Spacecraft Digital Twins in CesiumJS
• Farsight Strengthens Mission Planning with 3D Tiles

We also shared some team news and info about events we had this month:

• Benedetto Proietti Joins the Cesium Team as Principal Software Engineer
• Cesium Spatial Humanities Projects on Exhibition in New York
• Building the Open Metaverse Full Day Course at SIGGRAPH
• Cesium at P3DL

[sarah]

New Cesium releases available.

CesiumJS 1.98 is out with many, many bug fixes.

Cesium for Unreal 1.18.0 has been updated, including dithered transition between levels-of-detail.

More info and download links on our blog.

In case you missed it, we shared these user stories on our blog this month:

• Terradepth Displays Sea Floor 3D Models with CesiumJS
• SAF-Foresight Improves Live Fire Range Safety with CesiumJS
• Cognitive Space Enables Satellite Mission Management with CesiumJS

We also published our trip report about SIGGRAPH 2022.

[sarah]

Cesium 1.99 and Cesium for Unreal 1.19.0 are now both available with bug fixes and performance improvements: Cesium Releases in November 2022 – Cesium

In case you missed it, we also announced the Cesium Certified Developer program:

• Announcing the Cesium Certified Developer Program

We shared these technical blog posts this month:

• Smoother LOD Transitions in Cesium for Unreal with Dithered Opacity Masking
• Tour of the New glTF Architecture in CesiumJS
• ESLint use at Cesium through years of a changing ecosystem

And we shared these community user stories:

• PropVR Brings Interactive 3D Visualization and Discoverability to Real Estate with Cesium
• Mosaic Visualizes High Resolution Photogrammetry Captures with Cesium
• The World’s Geoscience Data, All in One Place
• Uzufly Creates Ultra High-Def City-Scale 3D Models with Cesium

[sarah]

New releases available across the entire Cesium platform!

• CesiumJS 1.100, with a new modular structure
• Cesium for Unreal 1.20.0
• Cesium for O3DE 1.1.0
• Cesium for Unity 0.1.1: newly part of the Cesium ecosystem. Read the Cesium for Unity announcement to learn more.
• This month we also introduced archives and exports on Cesium ion.

Also on the blog this month, we shared some team news:

• Adam Morris joined the Cesium team
• We shared our work at I/ITSEC

And some great stories from the Cesium community:

• MathWorks visualization of aerospace simulations
• The Yomiuri Shimbun news coverage of the war in Ukraine with Cesium Stories
• xDTwin urban planning in CesiumJS
• WindBorne Systems tracking weather balloon flights in 4D

[sarah]

Happy New Year! We have new releases out:

• CesiumJS 1.101 is out with experimental support for 3D Tiles voxels & a new parameter to control the amount of darkness of the vertex shadow
• Cesium for Unreal 1.21.0 is out with bug fixes
• Cesium for Unity preview has been updated with bug fixes

Also on the blog this month:

• A deep dive into CesiumJS’s new packages: Modular Structure in CesiumJS Offers Better Dependency Management
• New free datasets available through Cesium ion: Aerometrex San Francisco Data Now Available on Cesium ion
• An update on the annual NORAD Tracks Santa: A Decade of Supporting NORAD Tracks Santa®

[Monica]

New Cesium releases are available:

• CesiumJS 1.103 includes implementation of smooth zoom with a mouse wheel.
• Cesium for Unreal 1.23.0 and Cesium for Unity 0.3.0 gained support for rendering 3D Tiles point clouds.
• Cesium ion has updated Sentinel-2 imagery.

More highlights and downloads are on our blog.

In case you missed them, we also published these blog posts in February:

• CesiumJS Adds Support for Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S)
• Cesium Certified Developer Program Update
• Gilytics Plans Energy Systems with CesiumJS
• Danielle Stollak Joins the Cesium Team as Ecosystem Grants Manager
• Mizuki Kobayashi Harris Joins the Cesium Team for Japanese Business Support
• The Visual Twin Keeps Construction Projects on Time with CesiumJS